Lewisham Road station remains in Jan 2003.
The station is by the junction of Loampit Hill and Tyrwhitt Road
(i.e. nowhere near Lewisham Road itself).
(Jan 2003)
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Looking east.
(Jan 2003)
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Eastwards looking view of Lewisham Road station site.
The line veers off to the right to join the SE line down to Lewisham
and beyond. The original line carried straight on, passing over
the SE line just south of St.John's station.
(June 2006)
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The station building surviving as a wonderfully odd
furniture and other household items shop.
(June 2006)
For more info: www.disused-stations.org.uk
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It would have been a bit foolish to have gone looking
for tangible remains of a line that had closed 86 years previously.
Astonishingly though, at the time of this visit, there were two
small sections of embankment remaining where the line crossed
over Brookmill Road, although this photo doesn't provide too
clear a view.
(Jan 2003)
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One of the rare remnants: a retaining wall just north
of the Blackheath Hill station site. This railway is the complete
antithesis of a railway like the Northern Heights, which is still
clearly a disused railway with most of its track bed and some
of its platforms and station buildings still intact. This line
provides a very different experience in that astute detective
work is needed to find any of it at all.
(Jan 2003)
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There are so few clues to indicate the existence of
the line at street level, that it was even difficult to follow
its path with a print out of the 1898 map of its route. One of
the subtle pointers is the gaps in the rows of old houses, now
filled with more modern developments. Or, as in this case, a
railway line filled in and replaced by a line of allotments...
(Jan 2003)
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...or a line of cars.
(Jan 2003)
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The abutment seen at the far end of the car park in
the photo above. The wall itself shows evidence of rebuilding
to allow the provision of a gate in the centre, yet some of the
original bricks still survive.
(Jan 2003)
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For what it's worth: the site of the Greenwich Park
terminus (in more of a prime location than the existing Greenwich
station). The station building was at the front end of the platform
area - the site is now occupied by an Ibis Hotel.
(Jan 2003)
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The Ibis Hotel on the site of the original station
building.
(Apr 2006)
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